Activities - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Building a Better Board

globalized and became more competitive in the '90s, as the world became more difficult, CEOs got busier and joined fewer boards," Kaufman says. "That was one of the things that led boards to look further afield for directors. They ran out of View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

19 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf

surfaces the unvarnished truth about an organization's innovation strategy needs to move back and forth between advocacy and inquiry. CEOs and senior leaders need not only to defend their initiative but also to find out what others think, up front. Indeed, the two... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat & Derek Schrader

12 Nov 2019
News

Seismic Shift

diversity and inclusion is what one might expect from a consultancy. The organization offers strategies, advises on diversity initiatives, and helps find and retain talent to fill the top seats. Yet experience shows that that isn’t always enough: strategy has to be... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

06 May 2002
What Do You Think?

What’s Driving the “New Marketing?”

so few eyebrows. Comments from readers of this column suggest that marketing has, in practice, moved beyond the product development, promotion, pricing, and distribution activities that defined the field five decades ago. Alternatively,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Sep 2024
News

From the Classroom to Casablanca

funding and resources. “That’s why Bank of Africa had two objectives—having a pedagogical banking center to offer insight for our students in order to understand the services the bank offers and also establishing an incubator that monitors all the View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

06 Sep 2018
Blog Post

How to Thrive in an Unstructured Environment

and let those function as your north star. Every morning, look at your to-do list. Throw out the action items that may no longer be relevant given the new information you learned from the day prior. See how your remaining desired View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

04 Oct 2016
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: CVS Health

Mentor. For the interns as a group, we offer intern-only sessions with senior leaders (and HBS alums), interaction with our Colleague Resource Groups, community relations activities with non-profit partners in the community, and more. The... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

23 Jun 2015
Blog Post

What is SVMP?

buzzing with lots of activity (and lots of proud parents). But once the students are gone the campus is quieter than usual; the Aldrich classrooms are empty, the Spangler dining hall is quiet, the Shad treadmills are unoccupied. It’s... View Details

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Industrial Production & Materials - Business & Environment

Confronting Climate Change Industrial Production & Materials Refrigerant gases, cement, and plastic are materials ripe for innovation Industrial activity that produces many of the materials used in commerce, as well as consumer products... View Details

22 Feb 2022
News

The Well-Healed Athlete

training and treatment plans. Meanwhile, at Salk Institute for Biological Studies, researchers are mapping the molecular changes and gene expressions that occur during athletic activity to better understand changes in performance. Work is... View Details

Keywords: April White; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

01 Sep 2018
News

Turning Point: Power Outlet

psychologically, so much so that it was hard to get out of bed. Eventually, I did get up to make breakfast. As I was scrambling eggs and cooking turkey sausage, I decided to activate an idea I’d had for a while—something I’d described to... View Details

01 Mar 2018
News

Turning Point: One Step at a Time

was true: Either the admissions committee was biased toward athletes, or these activities were things that could be accomplished by any human who dedicated herself to the task. In other words, I discovered the difference between the... View Details

Keywords: Christina Wallace (MBA 2010)

01 Apr 1998
News

Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges

continued M&A activity among companies seeking economies of scale and scope and attempting to take full advantage of political liberalization, globalization, and emerging markets. This positive business climate, Corzine noted, will be... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

01 Dec 2014
News

Innovation: Frozen Assets

clear of the frozen-food aisle, thanks to the lingering associations that the meals are clogged with sodium and preservatives. Frozen-food titans have been actively trying to reverse the stereotypes: ConAgra and Nestlé have decreased the... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos

24 May 2018
Blog Post

Win/Win Board Assignments: Expert Advice from Board Recruiter Julie Norris

board room." Among the diversity factors boards look for is age. One age bracket is not necessarily more desirable than another, but they do suggest different kinds of roles. In general, today's boards, Norris says, "have a greater interest in currently View Details

24 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Debora L. Spar

innovation work? A: There are many. Recent decisions against Napster and other file-sharing firms, for example, confirm that property means are by no means dead online. On the contrary, both citizens and firms want to preserve property rights in cyberspace, and they... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Ray A. Goldberg

Coordination, another influential volume that applied this method of analysis to the wheat, soybean, and Florida orange industries. From those days to the present, Goldberg has remained an extraordinarily active and prolific scholar—the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Agriculture & Agribusiness

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Tech Investment the Wise Way

value created for users by the offering based on the technology; define the structure of the value chain, that is, the network of activities within the firm required to create and distribute the products or services offered to customers;... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough & Richard S. Rosenbloom

23 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle

it appears as if there is somewhat of a "virtuous circle," where the growth in the activity of U.S. venture capital industry has enhanced the conditions that drive the long-run value creation of this capital, which has in turn... View Details

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner; Financial Services

21 Nov 2024
News

Mother Nurture

Julia Cole, Tina Keshani, and Sophia Richter (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Tina Keshani (MBA 2020), Julia Cole (MBA 2020), and Sophia Richter (MBA 2020) met at Startup Boot Camp in their first year at HBS, they quickly discovered they shared a vision to create a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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